Who Are We?
Board Games for All Ages operates its business in the United Kingdom.
You can contact Board Games for All Ages via contact@boardgamesforallages.com. This Policy applies to our collection and use of your data in connection with our services, like boardgamesforallages.com (the “Services”).
How to Reach Our Data Protection Officer?
To contact Board Games for All Ages’s Data Protection Officer regarding our processing of your personal data, email contact@boardgamesforallages.com.
How Do We Notify You of Changes to this Policy?
We keep this Policy under regular review and place updates on boardgamesforallages.com. We will also provide notifications of material changes via email or other channels. If you keep using the Services after we notify you, you are giving implicit consent to the updated Privacy Policy. If not, you may cancel your account.
What Are Your Rights?
Board Games for All Ages recognises that your personal data belongs to you and we don’t wish to use it in ways that you don’t want us to.
If granted by applicable laws, you can exercise a variety of rights regarding our use of your data:
- You can ask us for a copy of the information we have about you
- You can ask us to correct any incorrect data we have about you and you can also update your account details yourself at any time by visiting your Board Games for All Ages account
- You can ask us to delete your data
- You can ask for your data in a common, machine-readable format · You can object to any processing we do on the basis of legitimate interests or to any automated decision-making
- You can ask us to restrict the processing of your data
- To exercise any of the foregoing rights, email contact@boardgamesforallages.com
Note that some of these rights may not be enforceable in your jurisdiction and some aren’t absolute—for example, we may not be able to forget you if we have to keep some of your data to comply with the law—but we’ll evaluate your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Board Games for All Ages will respond to your request within one month of receiving it. Also, note that if you’re located in the UK or the EU, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office or the supervisory authority in your country of residence or place of work.
What Data Do We Collect?
We don’t receive any personal data about you other than what you provide us, either by creating an account, using the Services, or data we can infer from your use of the Services.
When you create a Board Games for All Ages account: We will collect basic contact information about you to set up your account you so you can use the site. This will include your name and email address, as well as a username and password so you can gain secure access to your account in the future.
Alternatively, we may request your authorisation to collect your basic personal details from a secure online source (e.g. Google, Facebook, PayPal) to which you have already provided this information.
We enable you to set an image for your Board Games for All Ages profile and this image is shown as a thumbnail next to some of your actions on the platform if you enable Public use of your profile picture. Please note that this image is dynamic and not frozen in time—e.g. if you change your image in 2025, the new image will appear next to your activities from 2024.
Your username is always visible, as well as your “Public Name” under which you have made any submissions, such as game ratings. All other user data you have provided is by default private and not visible to other site users. You can enable other users to search for your name, email address, city of residence and country in your My Account page, where you can also toggle whether your profile picture is visible to others.
When you make an order: To enable us to process orders, we will collect basic payment information as well as your name, home address and email address. Your name and the amount you’ve paid will display on your My Account page.
When you register your interest to join our Mailing List: We collect personal information when you register your interest to be informed about our ongoing activities. This will include information such as your name and email address.
When you use the Services: We also collect information about your use of our Services, including your IP address, mobile device identifier, how much time you spend on the site, and what you do, like or view. We do this through the use of cookies.
What Happens If You Don’t Want Us to Have Your Data?
You are not required to provide personal data to us. Note, however, that your failure to do so may affect our ability to provide the Services you request. For example, we are unable to process your order if you do not provide your payment information.
How Do We Use Your Data?
Board Games for All Ages uses your personal data to provide the services you request, to personalise your Board Games for All Ages experience and to send you communications. We also use your data to help us make Board Games for All Ages better and to advertise to you.
Services Requested: We use your information to provide our Services to you:
- using your account data to enable you to take advantage of our platform’s features
- processing orders
Communications: We may use your information to send you some different types of emails if you have signed up to this on registration, or opted in later. In order to stop receiving emails, click Unsubscribe at the bottom of an email, or email contact@boardgamesforallages.com.
Making Board Games for All Ages Better: We use aggregated and personal data about you and your use of our Services to develop and test better gaming tools, to drive our research and development and to better understand our users and partners. Board Games for All Ages does this analysis using a variety of data sources—transactional data (how you use the Services), click stream and log data (web traffic and Services usage), email data (how you respond to emails we send you), survey data and customer service data. We may send you surveys about the Services, but participation is completely voluntary.
Advertising: Aside from sending marketing communications by email, we may target ads to our users and measure how they perform, both through our Services, such as on boardgamesforallages.com, and through other channels like social networking sites and other websites.
With Whom Are We Sharing Your Data?
We may disclose your data to our affiliated organisations and subsidiaries, and to service providers who render services to us or you on our behalf. We also may disclose your information if required by law, requested by law enforcement authorities or to enforce our legal rights, such as pursuant to a subpoena. We may share your information in connection with a sale or reorganisation of Board Games for All Ages, but in any such case, the terms of this Policy will continue to apply.
Our service providers include:
- banks and payment providers – to authorise and complete payment transactions;
- organisations within the payment card industry – to help prevent online fraud;
- IT, information security and cloud services providers – to help us provide the Services and keep your data safe;
- communication providers – to assist us with the processing and delivery of email and other communications;
- behavioural analytics tools – to collect and help us understand data when you use our Services
How Long Do We Keep Your Data?
We keep your personal data in an identifiable form for as long as we have a legitimate reason to use the data and as required by law.
Children’s Data
We do not direct the Services to users under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us at contact@boardgamesforallages.com.
Users Located in the UK and European Union
In addition to the foregoing, the following provisions apply to our users located in the UK and EU:
On What Legal Bases Do We Process Your Data?
We process your personal data on a variety of legal bases depending on the use. For example, we will only process your personal data to send you direct marketing if we have your consent and you can withdraw this consent at any time by emailing contact@boardgamesforallages.com or clicking Unsubscribe on a received email. Sometimes it may be necessary to process your data for us to comply with our legal obligations.
How Are We Using Your Data Based on Our Legitimate Interests?
We may process your personal data for the purposes of our legitimate interests, provided that these uses aren’t outweighed by your rights or interests. For any uses we justify on the basis of legitimate interest, you have the right to opt out of such processing, by emailing contact@boardgamesforallages.com.
Are We Doing Any Automated Decision Making?
No.
Date of this policy update: August 2024, v1.1
